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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: EasyShop, Asda and budget concerns
EasyShop’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou is confident, but the likes of Amazon have struggled to establish a foothold in grocery
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Comment & OpinionFoster’s gets visual with funny, descriptive campaign
Aussie signifiers and sense of humour intact, the ad also cannily suggests Foster’s is an uncomplicated beverage with a short ingredients list
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Comment & OpinionMake Me Well: Xand van Tulleken ‘clears the fog’ on wellness
The TV doctor’s book is designed to ‘clear the fog, resolve the confusion and set you free’
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Comment & OpinionPoopmaxxing is not a silver bullet for Brits’ fibre deficiency
Influencers are right to destigmatise conversations about fibre’s digestive health benefits: frank conversations are needed
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Comment & OpinionWhy are we still using 20-year-old rules to decide which foods are unhealthy?
Burgers and crisps widely seen as unhealthy are still passing the government’s ad and promotion rules because the test they’re judged against is more than 20 years out of date, says Katharine Jenner, executive director at Obesity Health Alliance
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Comment & OpinionFibre health claim regulation is bizarre and shoppers suffer for it
Many dubious calcium-fortified products can make legal gut health claims while a mixed wholegrain bread cannot, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation
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Comment & OpinionHow to master the art of storytelling and get your brand heard
Getting heard takes more than robust analysis, good slides and professional presentation, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & OpinionFood fraud: A new era of corporate criminal exposure
Three legislative reforms have converged to make food fraud prosecutions far easier – and most food businesses haven’t caught up, says Richard Reichman, specialist food safety lawyer at BCL Solicitors
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Comment & OpinionWho are Boots’ new owners and what will they do?
While the Westons in the UK control ABF and Fortnum & Mason, Boots’ new owners are the separate Canadian branch of the family. So what can they bring to the 177-year-old British retailer?
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Comment & OpinionHigh-protein Doritos: has functional food finally gone too far?
Do consumers actually want functional benefits in their snacks? Or should bags of crisps be left alone?
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Comment & OpinionEvery extra cost makes affordable food harder to deliver
After 21 years at the BRC, Andrew Opie has one parting message for policymakers: every tax, charge and regulation added to the food chain comes at a cost to affordability and jobs.
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Comment & OpinionWhy do supermarkets still sell ‘cancer-causing’ sandwiches?
Despite the efforts being made to move away from the additive in chilled meat ranges, prepared and ready meals remain a significant blind spot for the supermarkets
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: supermarkets struggle for growth, Tesco supplier row, delivery robots
With the rumour mill in overdrive over consolidation in the grocery sector, we look at why they’re struggling for growth. Plus Tesco’s supplier row, Diageo’s innovation shake-up and delivery robots
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Comment & OpinionOat Cult’s porridge orgy is amusing and disturbing
Oat Cult remains deeply distinctive in a category usually dominated by messaging about health, satiety and warmth
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Comment & OpinionRetail media’s next growth area is brands that don’t even sell in store
As retail media investment keeps climbing, the real growth lies with non-endemic advertisers if retailers and brands can get relevance right, says Deni Petrova, VP of commerce at WPP Media
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Comment & OpinionHow we prioritised purpose by becoming a social enterprise
When your purpose is built into your foundations and independently verified, it becomes much easier to focus on what really matters, says Jenny Costa of Rubies in the Rubble
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s confidence rests on more than just market share
In a grocery market where growth is increasingly hard won, Tesco is demonstrating it has more tricks up its sleeve
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Comment & OpinionPackaging must do more than stand out, it must help people buy
As growth gets harder grocery brands are under pressure to stand out, but the better starting point for packaging is simpler: what will help people buy, says Kathryn Jubrail, partner at Mother Design
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Comment & OpinionIt’s not higher costs that sink a business, it’s unpredictable ones
Traditional commodity hedging suits big treasuries, not mid-sized manufacturers, but a newer breed of insurance could make volatile ingredient costs predictable instead of just painful, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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Comment & OpinionWhy the ‘SME penalty’ in UK logistics is stifling food innovation
The UK has no shortage of warehouse space or freight capacity, what’s missing is the co-ordination that lets small food & drink brands access it, says Michael Ostroumov, chief executive at Value Chain Lab and Flox project lead